702 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



burdens which depress them in every industrial pursuit. 

 And, it should be borne in mind, that whether you 

 are in fair circumstances or poor as a church mouse, this 

 question is fraught with the utmost importance, not only 

 to yourselves but to the generations yet unborn. Another 

 thing which we must understand sooner or later is, we 

 have got to do away with sentimental politics before any 

 great strides can be taken in the way of reform. We must 

 view everything from a practical standpoint. 



u The growth and arrogance of combinations of cor- 

 porations of aggregated wealth; the steady, rapid and 

 defiant encroachments of monopoly upon the agencies of 

 production and distribution; the greed, avarice and selfish 

 ambition of the rich, spreading like a pestilence among 

 the masses; the deep-seated disappointment and discontent 

 prevailing among the masses of the toilers, who produce 

 wealth but can't possess or enjoy it; the wide-spread cor- 

 ruption and venality in public life; the alarming and 

 rapid increase of social vice and crime against person and 

 property; the limited knowledge on the part of the masses 

 as to the true causes of these evils and the best remedies, 

 are all sure indications of the presence of the disease 

 which destroys republics." 



Hon. Evan Jones, President of the Farmers' and Labor- 

 ers* Union, in a speech at Albany, Texas, referring to the 

 encroachments of organized capital against the interests 

 of labor says: 



"The United States in this line is accomplishing in 

 a few years, under her system of corporate powers, what it 

 took Rome centuries to wrest from the people. In order 

 to bring this matter before you in its true light it is 

 necessary to state that land, labor and capital constitute the 

 three great sources from which the government draws her 

 support. If land is getting more than its just or pro rata 

 share, labor and capital will become poorer. If labor is 



